s.13 And be it enacted, That in the Chapter of the Cathedral Church of . . . Rochester,
. . . Two canonries shall be suspended in the following Order; (that is to say,) . . . the
first vacant Canonry shall be suspended and the Canonry secondly vacant shall be
filled up, and the Canonry thirdly vacant shall be suspended . . .

Vacancy

How occasioned

Prebend

Outcome

1st

J. Marsham d. 28 Jan. 1840

I

suspended

2nd

F. Hotham d. 11 Oct. 1854

III

T. Robinson pres.

3rd

M. Irving d. 6 Oct. 1857

IV

suspended

Thus the prebends were reduced by 1857 to the requisite number of four.